Clothes-stick.



8. LA POINT.

CLOTHES STICK.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 20. I916.

11,225,M3 Patented May 8,1917.

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CLOTHES-STICK.

Application filed November 20, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, STEPHEN LA POINT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Sticks, of which the following is a specification.

In the laundrying process as commonly domestically carried on the clothes are boiled in a boiler containing saponified water. After being boiled the clothes are transferred to a tub or tubs containing rinsing water. Because the clothes are hot when transferred from the boiler to the rinsing water an implement, usually a plain broom stick is employed in effecting this transfer, but such a stick is troublesome to use because of the difliculty of catching and retaining the clothes on the stick so that they can be successfully lifted out of the boiler. The object of the present invention is to provide an implement with which the operation of catching and retaining the clothes for transference is facilitated and also from which the clothes may easily slide into the rinsing water. i

The invention is embodied in the construction herein shown and described and then finally claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a view in elevation, broken out near the middle, of the stick according to my invention showing the pivoted lug in the position it occupies when the clothes are to be caught on the stick.

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the lug in its ordinary position or as when the clothes slide oif the stick.

Fig. 3 is a similar View taken at right angles to Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a View looking up at the lower end of Fig. 2.

In the views 5 designates the stick body which may be of the usual form and di mensions and have a hole 5 at its upper end to receive a cord with which to hang up the stock. The lower end of the stick is provided with a slit 6 in which is piv- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1917.

Serial No. 132,244.

oted a lug 7 by means of a screw 8. This lug is preferably formed of metal, aluminum, bronze or other non-corrosive material. The pivoting screw is also probably best formed of brass. The lug is a fiat elongated member and is pivoted near one of its ends to the stick so that when it is turned up at right angles to the stick it will project beyond the side of the stick and be supported there against downward pressure on the clothes by the end wall of the slit.

In practice therefore, the end of the stick containing the lug is shoved into the clothes in the boiler thus fetching the lug to the position shown in Fig. 1 after which the clothes may be engaged with and gathered upon the stick by turning the latter. In this condition the clothes may be lifted out of the boiler, care being taken to depress and hold the stick in as nearly a horizontal position as possible during the transference to the rinsing water. The pressure of the clothes wrapped around the stick retains the lug in angular relation to the stick and when the stick, thus loaded, is turned to upright position at the rinsing tub the clothes will slip off easily into the rinsing water because the weight of the clothes turns the lug from the position seen in Fig. 1 to the position seen in Fig. 2.

There can be some slight modification of the form shown without departing from the gist of the invention as claimed.

IVhat I claim is:

A laundry transferring device comprising, in combination, a stick having a slit in its end and an elongated lug pivoted in said slit to swing unrestrainedly therein to project beyond the side of the stick at an angle thereto and by gravity alone to aline longitudinally with the stick and permit clothes to slide off the stick by gravity when the stick is turned to vertical position with the lug-bearing end of the stick lowermost, substantially as described.

STEPHEN LA POINT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

